Back during WWDC 2017, Apple unveiled a new speaker for the home called: HomePod. This is Apple’s first take on the smart speaker space that has been heavily dominated by the likes of Amazon and Google. With the HomePod, Apple talked about the smartness of this speaker. This speaker has the ability to sense the room and location in that room it is in to delivery crisp sound.
Around Thanksgiving in 2017, I started to notice something was a tad bit off with the vision from my right eye. If I closed by of my eyes, I could see a small greyish green circle in my right eye that would start to fade. If I only kept my right eye open, I could tell that everything was becoming greyed/washed out. I use computer monitors every day for my job, so I started to think my eyesight must be going bad. I also thought that maybe I was just tired and I needed some rest.
Two days later, I noticed that, along with the greyish green circle, my vision was also completely blurry in that same area. I was looking at different objects in my house and would notice that I couldn’t tell that object was even there when only looking out of my right eye. This, of course, started to worry me. I talked with my family about this, and they recommended that I stop at America’s Best (a contact/glass company that does eye testing) to get my eyes looked at.
I do apologize for my absence the last many months. With the my newest job, life changes, Holidays, and other events, I have been very busy. Here are a few things to expect coming from me and the site for 2018…
When the iPhone 4 was announced, I was totally excited to soon upgrade to this device. I was still using an iPhone 3G as I skipped on upgrading to the iPhone 3GS. This iPhone, now being an all time favorite of iPhone owners, was mocked and made fun of for its design in the beginning.
My father and I wanted to upgrade to this device. We decided, for a first, to camp out at our local Apple Store so we could get our hands on this new device on launch day. We made plans, a few days prior, to make sure we would be some of the first customers in line.
My father was a truck driver and just got off his shift (12 hours) and home around 10PM the night before. I worked as a manager at a grocery store and worked 10-8PM that day. We met up at his house at 11PM and took off to the Apple Store. We arrived there just before midnight.
Never under estimate making a podcast. Seriously. I’ve been writing a script to follow for this first podcast. I know a month ago I was going to get this started. And started I have… but there is more work getting this first podcast produced than I thought.
First things first…
I should have the first one up in under two weeks. I have this goal set and I’m going to start recording it tomorrow.
The podcast will be mainly about a topic I love. The topic will be technology. However, I am adding in my own life experiences too to make this different than the other tech podcast out there.
I also will be talking about my thoughts and my opinions on this. I have a goal in mind, and I do hope that everyone enjoys what I’m going to be making.
More to come soon…
~robert1ee
I’ll keep this brief… A lot is going on in my life. Awesome, great things.
I’m getting myself setup to start helping my team make podcast. At the same time, I’m getting myself ready to start my own podcast.
I’m getting the final touches together to start this project.
More to come shortly…
~robert1ee
Twitter #Music is now upon us… What is this and what can it do for you?
Twitter #Music is a service by Twitter that allows you to discover music. How does it allow you to discover music? It uses Twitter tweets from its users that mentions song from iTunes, Pandora, Spotify, and other music serivces. Twitter then uses this information and lets you see what’s popular at the moment.
The website is laid out in tiles. You can hover over a tile and click the play button for a 30 second preview of the song. You can also follow that artist by clicking the Twitter bird icon that shows up in the top right corner as you hover over a tile. There are different sections you can find music, such as: Popular, Emerging, Suggested, #NowPlaying, then your own page of artist you follow.
Like the website… the iOS App has a tile layout as well. The tiles are interactive. These expand when you touch on one to emphasize the song/artist you are listening to. With the iOS App, you can login to your Spotify or Rdio account to listen to full length songs. Once you press play, it will continue to play each song from left to right.
Swiping from left to right (and vice versa) takes you to different sections. As mentioned above, you can see what’s Popular, what’s Emerging, what’s Suggested, what’s #NowPlaying, and your profile. You can also access drop down menu by pressing the top bar to then select a section.
This app is definitely something special. I will update as I play more with this app for a complete review…
robert1ee
Here are some pictures of the upcoming Google Event: Project Glass!
I have been one of the selected few to have been invited to New York City to become a beta tester for the Google’s Project Glass. I have never been to New York before nor have I ever attend a conference of this magnitude. I have started a campaign to help me achieve my dreams and head to NYC! Below you will find information about this campaign and I have embedded a video of what Project Glass is.
If you can help me reach my goal and make my dreams come true, I will be forever thankful for your contributions. Please read what I have to say below and follow the links to the campaign site!
Hi! My name is Robert Lee. I am a technology enthusiast and I have always wanted to travel to New York City, NY. I have be wanting to see what the big city life is like and how technology changes your life in such a big city. I heard about Project Glass near the end of 2011 when Google briefly leaked some information about it. Over the past year and a half, I have been following this project with great interest. Then, about five weeks ago (around the middle of February), Google had a contest to become a beta tester for this device. Thrilled, I filled out the required information in hopes to win. I, however, tend to have a bad track record when it comes to winning. To my surprise, however; Google sent me a message letting me know that I was one of the winners of this contest! I was very very excited until I read what came next… Google wants me to spend $1500 for traveling expenses and to purchase Glass…
I need to raise funds to be able to attend New York City, NY for the first time, and I need to attend Google’s Project Glass event. If I should hit this goal… and if Indiegogo tells me who helped me hit my goal… I will personally give each person, that donates more than $50, a call voice/video with Glass so you can experience what this device can do. If Indiegogo doesn’t tell me who has help, please follow me on Twitter (account below) and I will make note of your generous help, and make sure I contact you once I have my device.
By helping me reach my goal, not only will you be allowing me to visit The Big Apple for the first time in my life, but you will also allow me to attend an event of a lifetime!
If you want to reach out to me for questions or to let me know you have made a donation, you can follow me on Twitter. Search for @robert1ee.
As of late, Facebook has been making a lot of its users frustrated with the iOS and Android App that it has. The App freezes. The App doesn’t load correctly. The Notification Bar will not load properly (you will see a number but when looking at your notifications, there will be nothing new showing up). And at times, the App doesn’t even load profiles.
Here’s something interesting though… Facebook has created a mobile HTML5 version of their site. If you go to facebook.com in on your smartphone, you will see, what appears to be, the same look as the App that you also have on your phone. Here’s another interesting thing… the HTML5 version loads quicker! Its Notification Bar is accurate in displaying new notifications! It loads the newly designed Timeline for profiles and tad faster!
This all makes you wonder… why should I even use the actually App then???
The App does offer the “pull-down to refresh” feature. The HTML5 just automatically checks for new updates. The App does feel more comfortable to people. The App does uses the screen real estate better. But besides these few features, the HTML5 version and the App version, both look the exact same way.
If you are having problems using the Facebook App, then try going to facebook.com, and you might be surprised at how much better it really is!
-The Other Point of View
